Re: Anti Slug and Snail Experiment

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jane@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 12:55:18 -0700, "Val" <ya-shur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> ~
> ~"'Mike'" <3d&6d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> ~> Following postings about slugs and snails and copper wire etc., I am
> ~> performing some experiments which gardeners, (that does not include
me, I
> ~> am a non gardener, 'her outdoors' is the gardener) might like to
follow.
> ~>
> ~> The Cathodic/Electrolytic Action experiment with two dissimilar
metals
> ~> round a pot may follow later.
> ~>
> ~> Mike
> ~
> ~Many years ago (about 30+) I read about copper deflecting the onslaught
of
> ~slugs. It so happened soon after reading this tidbit of information I
> ~spotted a box of copper tape on the counter of my company 'store' while
I
> ~was getting spare fuses for my truck. I asked the fellow what it was
for. He
> ~had no idea nor who ordered it. We paved roads. He said if I wanted it
I
> ~could have it. Whoopie! Two dozen lovely 100ft rolls of 2 inch wide
copper
> ~'tape'.
> 
> I bought some adhesive copper tape from the Organic Garden Catalogue
> and have stuck it round the potting shed window to stop them getting
> in, and also around the large pot of my main hosta plant.
> 
> Sadly they don't seem to be stopped by it - keep having to remove
> snails from under the pot rim daily... have to admit I was rather
> disappointed. I'm just hoping that some are discouraged and I don't
> have lace for hosta leaves in a month... but I'm glad I didn't buy
> slug rings - much more expensive and it would have been really
> annoying to find they don't work!
> 
> jane
> 
> Chiltern Hills, 140m above sea level.
> 
> Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!
> 
It may be worth hitting them with a liquid slug killer now the barriers 
are up as there will be lots living on the inside :~)
-- 
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk 
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and 
Lapageria rosea